The Wanaque River (Native American for "place of the sassafras") is a tributary of the Pequannock River in Passaic County in northern New Jersey in the United States.
Once known as the Long Pond River, the sources of the Wanaque River are Greenwood Lake, once known as Long Pond (not to be confused with the nearby village of Greenwood Lake in the state of New York) and the watershed known as Sterling Forest.
Both Greenwood Lake and Sterling Forest straddle the border of the states of New Jersey and New York.
Downstream, the construction of dams at Monks and Wanaque created the Monksville and Wanaque reservoirs, respectively.
From the Raymond Dam of the Wanaque reservoir, the river flows to its confluence with the Pequannock River.
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“If a walker is indeed an individualist there is nowhere he can’t go at dawn and not many places he can’t go at noon. But just as it demeans life to live alongside a great river you can no longer swim in or drink from, to be crowded into safer areas and hours takes much of the gloss off walking—one sport you shouldn’t have to reserve a time and a court for.”
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